boot issue

I just installed a WD Caviar Black internal as a second drive with no OS on it. It works fine but when I boot up there is a message right after HP splash screen the pops up and down and has something about drives. It's black background with white print. It goes down to fast to read. I don't...

I've got Win7 home premium x64. When I boot it says near the clock can't reconnect or can't connect to all network drives. I don't have any nor have I ever. I don't have a clue how to fix this. Thanks so much. Joe

ok so i have a build computer by my dad , it is windows 7 home premium . i wanted to format the computer using the CD that i have which is GIGABYTE 6-quad/ S-series . Ok so i was playing around to see if it could load ( but nothing was loading until it came a point that when i try to start...

I have an odd problem with my Windows 7 installation. The computer I'm trying to install it on is running Windows XP, and any time I try to boot from the disk (I have it set to be first in the boot sequence), it seems to just skip over the disk altogether and run boot from the hard drive (into...

My little Acer laptop had it's old antivirus expire last night so I decided to add ESET Nod32 AV5 to the mix because I had it running on my big laptop. I uninstalled Norton IS2011 with the uninstall tool and re-booted. I installed Nod32 and noticed that it was doing some housecleaning right...

Fixes an issue in which a Stop error occurs when an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Boot starts a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Everything I did recently that might contribute to the problem- I was hoping to make a dualboot comp by adding windows XP to a new partition. I created the new partition with 20gb. (From the 500 of my actual harddrive) But before I actually installed on that, I got distracted with a second...

Strange problem about a month ago maybe once every 4 to 10 days the PC boots up and all the characters are strange, instead of the usual alpabet they are spercial characters. I do a system restore and all is fine. If anyone has any thoughts on this as how to solve this short of reloading...

Hi, I Hope someone can help. I have just run PartedMagic on a new Windows 7 system to shrink C: in order to be able to create an E: (Data) partition. On rebooting, I get the following error message: As it is a new machine, it was supplied with no system disk and I don't have a Windows 7...

Hi, My new Windows 7 computer has been made unbootable because I tried to change a drive letter. What can I solve this problem ? How can I prevent the same thing happen again? I will explain what happened. Yesterday, I booted my Windows 7 computer and as it was booting I plugged in my camcorder...

Hi, I am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit installed on a partition size of 270GB.The system worked for two months.Now when I start the pc, after the bios screen I get "Windows is loading files with a white completion bar.As soon as the bar gets completed or is full the system restarts.I tried...

I just changed my CMOS Battery and put the date and time back in the BIOS and now when i get past the POST screen it goes to a "A recent hardware has been changed, click on diagnostic and fix" something like that. so i did that and it goes and checks and comes back saying failed. now i try just...

I have seen this problem before in other threads but my problem is that my computer won't even start up now. I am running Parallels 6.0 on my Macbook Pro and I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed. When I downloaded the Service Pack 1 update, everything was fine until I tried to reboot and my...

Dear readers, When I try to install windows 8 on Virtualbox (an application that runs virtual platforms (VM)) it give me this error: 64-Bit : Well, I really have a 64-bit computer so that can't be the problem, I've burn the .ISO on a disk but there is no disk needed for Virtualbox you will...

I had a few BSOD's and was going to do a system restore as I could not even get to post the dmp files up here coz the pc kept restarting with BSOD. Upon starting the system restore to factory setting i got another BSOD. now the laptop only turns on to a black screen asking for windows 7...

Hi people! I have a problem I cannot solve. I suddenly got the "Windows cannot start due to a hardware or software change, windows/system32/config/system 0x000000f systemregisterfile missing or damaged" - message for no apparent reason (noe installations or changes lately, it just came up...

I currently have only 1 user on my system which is myself & it does not have a password, until recently it booted to desktop without any problems & then out of the blue, which i think after a bunch of windows updates im now presented with the user select screen which i have to click to load into...

[SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...

Hello my issue is as follows: ->Win 7 Pro ->Boots up shows "press ctrl+alt+del" screen ->Once this is pressed, the prompt for the password does not show (mouse moves not frozen) ->Unable to recover from rescue cd After toiling with this issue for some time I found that when the computer is...

Windows 7 64bit Asus P7P55D-E LX 8GB Crucial SDR DD3 EVGA GTX 260 Samsung 470 SSD 128gb (Startup Disc) Seagate 2TB WD 2TB <--- Problem Drive WD Velocirator 300GB LaCie 2TB external connected with eSata Last night i installed a new Bootup disk drive (128gb ssd). The PC started up fine with most...